------- Comment #4 from rick at hartmantech dot com 2006-10-25 16:23 ------- The problem is not only confined to "sufficiently modern machines". Some of us have a conservationist sort of outlook, and are happy to find a use for an older machine as a router, firewall, Kerberos server or whatever. Linux supports this sort of thing well - a floppy firewall with no hard drive will run just fine on an 8M machine, and a 486/33 will keep up with all that an ordinary ADSL connection can transmit. With insn-attrtab excluded, gcc-4.1.1 compiles quickly and well on 52M, and quite possibly on smaller machines, though I have no very recent experience to prove it. It seems a pity that a single source file, and an automatically-generated one at that, should essentially block an excellent compiler from a lot of smaller machines, new and old, and cause enough of a slowdown even on a 512M machine to arouse concern.
If there is a rational reason for this file to be huge, well and good, but if it is readily split that would seem like a worthwhile thing to do. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29442
